oof... just discovered my budget studio monitors the plug had come loose and the pins were not holding into their sockets properly on the plug side

further investigation showed that these things have thick looking cable but tiny thin wires inside, and the socket connecting the two speakers, one containing the amp, was very thin, and the insulation extremely thick and no shielding anyway

so, i opened up the back of the passive unit, cut the wires and stripped them, took a little bit of effort to strip the ridiculously fat insulation, twisted em together, insulation tape with both wires firmly separated, and yay, no more funny noises and left channel dropout

when i cbf later i'll replace the back panel conection with some standard wire sockets and get a soldering iron and tin out some normal speaker wires, like a normal fucking speaker connection

literally an expensive part where three cheap components would have been far more durable and unlikely to fail

oh well, in this case i saved money by paying for stupidity

#diy #ifixedit